Early Dreamfall Chapters gameplay footage released

Red Thread Games has shared a video of Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey in action.

It shows heroine Zoe exploring a sunshine-flooded forest. The video demonstrates the hybrid third-person-point-and-click control scheme.

Red Thread stressed on Kickstarter that what you're seeing is "very early prototype footage". Frame-rate, art, animations and UI will all improve significantly. Zoe is a placeholder model dressed in her old Dreamfall clothes, and all the environment assets are temporary.

"Riverwood is, after all, a magical, fairy-tale forest, and right now it's not looking particularly magical or fairy-taley," noted Red Thread on Kickstarter. "But this will change."

The post concluded: "In other words: things are far, far from finished."

Dreamfall Chapters is cruising to its $850,000 funding goal on Kickstarter. Eerily, Dreamfall Chapters has, at the time of writing, raised $777,777. There are 23 days to go.

"Oh I'm a freaky gorilla, a jungle VIP..."

Ragnar Tornquist and his Red Thread Games team can now think safely about stretch goals. A teaser image sent to Eurogamer showed a purple gorilla with freaky black eyes cuddling what must be a Linux penguin and biting an Apple.